Deep in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, there's a grey obelisk, around 2m (6ft) high, its inscription faded. It commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh is the wife of Prince Edward, the late Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son. The couple met at a tennis event in 1993 and married at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle ...

And no, sorry, sleeping does not count. We ask because that will be the length of the Edinburgh International Festival’s opening performance – a piece of classical music called The Veil of the ...